What is a society? Is it the set of sophisticated social, economic and political methods and structures we set up to organise ourselves today? Or is it the assemblage of temporary human ethic and aesthetic encounters in forests, bars, streets and meeting rooms, continuously dissolving with the promise to coagulate …

The Global Development Network had its 18th conference on 22 and 23 March 2018 in its headquarters in New Delhi, India. This years focus was on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development. I contributed to the session on Ethics with a talk on “The Politics of Hypothesis – …

While 2 of the 3 guest rooms undergo a major renovation, the Happening Hotel opens the doors for an exclusive party on 26 August 2017. This is a private event. Contact brenda.lush@thehappeninghotel.com if you think you quality for an invitation. The Happening Hotel is the hotel of the Institute of …

The Institute of Idle Curiosity for Elements of Seduction is a research institute established in 2006. It is built on the (fragmented) legacy of the historical Institut Weich-Fehler für kritische Philosophie der Psychologie that existed from 1924 until 1952. The research programme of the Institute of Idle Curiosity for Elements …

Revisiting Melancholy Robert Burton published the first edition of his magnum opus ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ in 1621. His aim was to write a definite and comprehensive study of the meaning of melancholy. His book promised to explain ‘.. What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and …